278-300-Revenge




Your time has stopped. Glaring at you won't bring a dead man back to life, will it? This is something you brought upon yourself. You're too much of a worm. Did you ever think you could be happy when you oppressed others? I won't let that happen, I promise....

 Masamune fluttered his hands around Saeki's face like a fortune-teller manipulating a crystal to check something.
 But it was only a stunt.
 To Saeki, it was unobtainable.

'Needless to say, your wife and daughter have nothing to do with it. This is between you and me. But I'd have had nothing to do with it. Didn't I? I know this is, if anything, evil. But you didn't think it was justice. You knew it was evil. You knowingly abused it. So how is this situation any different from what you did to me?

 Masamune left Saeki's side and walked to his former seat.
 Saeki was seated in the middle of the long table, whereas Masamune was at the end of the table at the back of the room.

 He stood behind his chair and put his hands on the corners of the backrest.
 He bent his elbows as if he were doing a push-up and repeated the process as if he were stretching, letting his weight rest on the chair.

 He picks up the wine bottle on the table, sips it and drinks it, then throws it roughly against the wall.

"The Binding One, Diez-Obrigadio--

 After watching the shards fly away, Masamune chanted.
 He manipulated the magic with his hands with an expression, just as a conductor does when he slowly raises both arms forcefully.

 The countless white arms protruding from the floor pushed the surrounding furniture to the corner of the room in a disorganized manner as Masamune's inflectional movements.

 With all the furniture and objects compressed into the corner, a large space appeared around Saeki and Masamune.

''-- 《Corpse Spirit's (Corpse) Mad Banquet (Fiesta)!

 Masamune chanted his next magic while he was still in a state of excitement.

 This is a reversal of the magic that was taken from Aries - the Transitional Net Deployment (Trans Field) - which is a reversal of the magic that was taken from Aries.

''Do you know why I kept you alive for so long? I could have killed them at any time. If I wanted to, I could have killed him at the same time as Kyogoku, Koizumi and the others.

What the...

 Saeki couldn't believe his ears.
 Until now, Akira Koizumi, Teppei Tadokoro and Takeshi Tachibana.
 It was because he had always assumed that these three men lived somewhere in this world.

 But Masamune's words made me believe that this assumption was too convenient.

I'm sure you're not the only one. That's why I went out of my way to let it live.

 The floor of the room glowed reddish-black and the room was filled with light, like a dark room.

'Burn this sight into your eyes, Saeki.

 Masamune pointed to the two bodies he hadn't dared to damage.

'You took away the little days that I could have lived, time, with your perceived malice. I'm still wandering through those days. No matter how many months pass, my heart is not healed and my spirit does not grow. I am left behind day after day. No matter how aloof or foolish the people around me are, I'm still growing older as a matter of course. But my time stops there.

So you killed my daughter you killed my wife!

'I ... couldn't keep my spirit alive if I wasn't seeking it somewhere else in the world. I would have killed myself, but I didn't want to die, I just didn't want to live.

Because we didn't stop you?

What? You are irrelevant and you have no right to stop us. Your stereotypes about us are so easily dismissed, but can you be held accountable for letting us live? People in Raghu used to encourage suicidal people to jump. They're still better than that. There's nothing more miserable than a life saved by a hypocrite's justice. It's like being murdered all the time.

'No one is stopping Aria...Julius...for that kind of thing.

"Aries, the man you've been obsessing over, interfered with my suicide! --

"--then you should die again! Die on your own! If you want to die, you'll die alone! Why? ! How could you take my daughter! ...killed my wife! --

Fortunately, there was a world!

 Masamune raised his voice.

 Saeki shook his shoulders as if hyperventilating from beside his statement and tried to quietly regulate his breathing.

'But I seem to be suffering from an incomprehensible disease...' It's as if the alarm clock is throwing a tantrum in my head...

..........

'It's your fault, Saeki. Because you guys are in this world, I'll never be able to get my own other world. Other worlds are ideal, right? Then there's no way you guys can stay here, right?

You.....

You promised me.... You promised..... that you would kill them all.

 Masamune slowly showed him a smile with just his mouth.
 As if to show him.

'But I can't vindicate my revenge. If that makes you sick again, you'll be in trouble. You won't be able to get it back.

Why don't you just kill me?

..........

If you have a grudge against me, just kill me!

Do you realize you're dead when you're dead?

...What?

 Saeki's voice was a bit tearful.

'Dead people can't grieve, can they? Only the living can realize the pain. Then killing is not revenge. When I realized that, I decided to change my mind. And I realized.... I wondered where a snob like you would end up when you seek happiness in life.

 Masamune held his hands out high and showed Saeki how to look right at him on the spot.

'Right! This is what makes you happy! Isn't this the pinnacle of human happiness, to have children and raise a family? But not for me, but for you! That's why these guys are dead! I've only lived for you to suffer, until now!

 A red light shone from underneath his feet, as if Masamune was being lit up.
 The magic circle is in time with Masamune's steps, and the magic circle arises and disappears underneath his feet as he lands on them.

''........you're not human.

This is human, right? What do you think people are, hmm?

 Masamune grinned.
 He then used the Telekinetic Force to suspend Saeki in mid-air.

'Let's finish up our revenge.'

 A few kobolds appeared around Masamune when he noticed them.
 They were innocent demons with their entire bodies red and two short horns on their heads.

''Master, yes this one.''

 In a young voice, the Ogre placed a knife in Masamune's hand.
 It wasn't a common one, but something as powerful as a meat cleaver and as long and thin as a tuna cleaver.

'Vengeance is tasteless and odorless. The problem is to get revenge, not to taste it. If you get any pleasure from it, you have failed.

 Around Saeki, who was suspended in midair, the kobolds were forming a circle and doing a bon dance.

 They were merrily performing a song and pouring out a small mug of sake.

Let's do it zubba!

It's like a blood spray!

Come on, cut it off!

 In the midst of the cheering of the ogres, Masamune held the knife in both hands and set it on Saeki's leg.

'You will lose your walk from this!

 And then the demons will sing.

You'll lose your walk now!

Tomorrow will be fun without a walk!

A man without a step has no legs!

 As if swinging a baseball bat, Masamune cut off both of Saeki's legs in one swift motion.

''Gwahhhh!''

 Saeki opened his big mouth and screamed.

 He writhes and writhes, spitting and spitting, twisting and writhing.
 The restraints have been released.

 Masamune immediately healed the severed part of Saeki's leg with his magic 《Heal》.
 But the leg did not return, and there was nothing from the knee down.
 Two legs that were cut off on the floor.
 Blood is splattered around them.

'You humans like to live, don't you? Then I will give you a more precious life than ever before!

You're a curious one. ~I'm sorry.

You're so arrogant! ~I'm sorry.

Master, great job!

 Masamune then set his sights on Saeki's right arm.

'I won't even give you a chance to probe my hand! In stopped time, roll the two of them in your brain before they were alive! Bite down on spit and snot while you indulge yourself and writhe!

....

 Saeki's right arm was severed and jumped up into the air.
 The left arm was severed as well.
 Saeki was so distant in pain that he could not speak.

 Masamune didn't empty the space and released his magic to heal the wound in the same way.
 To keep Saeki from being killed.

'I'll leave your tongue, expose your haplessness for salvation! The happiness of others you're about to hear will moderately gouge your wounds! That's why I'm leaving my ears! I'm going to leave you an eye, too! The gray skies spread out before us!

A sky of ashes!

No arms, no legs, no family.

Just the tongue, ears and eyes are extra!

 The demons celebrated their revenge by dancing and singing while finishing their drinks.

 Masamune held out his hand over Saeki's left eye and said

''Unreasonable Robbery (Riddick Lost)!

'Gawd! --

 He gouged out Saeki's left eye and squeezed it in the palm of his hand.

'You can see if you only have one eye, right? Enjoy the rest of your life with what's left of your right eye.

It's so hollow!

It's hollow!

Master! Great!

 All magic is lifted and the room returns to darkness.

 The only faint illumination was the moonlight.
 There were no more voices or figures of kobolds there.

 Saeki was dropped from the air to the floor in a messy fashion.
 He couldn't passive and couldn't crawl.

 Blood poured from his eyeless left eye and he collapsed on the floor.

 Masamune left the room quietly.
 There was no color in his face.

 The candles were extinguished.

 Alone in the middle of the quiet, dark room, Saeki was burying his face in tears of blood and saliva.

 Gradually his consciousness faded away and he quietly closed his eyes.